Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Palais de Chaillot: Place des Droits de l'Homme

Accession Number: 
183860
Order Title: 
Archivision Addition Module SIX--6,074 images
Type of View: 
generalView
View Title: 
La Jeunesse (Youth) by Alexandre Descatoire, detail, lower half
Date of View: 
4/18/2009
Image description: 
Alexandre Descatoire (1874-1949) was a French sculptor known for his war memorials.
Image Rights: 
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Source Institution: 
Archivision, Inc.
Collection: 
Addition Module SIX
Culture: 
French
Subject: 
world's fairs
Subject: 
Exposition internationale (1937 : Paris, France)
Subject: 
fountains
Work Types: 
Architecture; public works; waterworks; fountains
Work Types: 
Art; sculpture (visual works)
Work Types: 
Built Environment; public spaces; squares (open spaces); plazas
Preferred Title: 
Palais de Chaillot: Place des Droits de l'Homme
Agent Display: 
Jacques Carlu (French architect, 1890-1976)
Date: 
1937 (creation)
Materials: 
stone; gilded bronze
Technique: 
casting (process)
Alternate Title: 
Chaillot Palace: Plaza of the Rights of Man
Locations: 
Paris, ¿le-de-France, France
Location Type: 
(site)
Style/Period: 
Art Deco
Style/Period: 
Twentieth century
Classification: 
Architecture
Classification: 
Sculpture